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My mother in law was born Dorothy Francis Keeling Pemberton In Trinidad. Her father was a priest in Trinidad and her mother was Sarah Inez Jellarett Seon, they married in Barbados but lived in Trinidad. Sarah's mother was Amelia Jane Jellarett married Isaac Valverde Seon. Isaac has Valverde and Keeling in his ancestors, on whom I am now trying to trace more information.

Do not have dates for Isaac Valverde Seon but going to visit someone in coming weeks who has a 'family tree' and will see what information she has. what names are in your tree? I am having trouble finding any information on Isaac's wife - Amelia Jane Jellerett

From the partial IGI match list of children to Isaac Seon and his (unknown name) wife "Jelerette" in my own database it looks like I should "make the assumption", adjust his name to Isaac Valverde Seon, and fill out the rest of the names properly.

Isaac Valverde Seon married Amelia Jane Jellarett on 13 June 1865 St Michael, I believe St Mary's Church but still to be confirmed. William Seon left Isaac a house in Fontabelle in his will.

In William's will he mentions - sons Isaac Valverde, Thomas Young, Henry Sharpe and daus Jane Eliza to whom he leaves a house in Cheapside. He also mentions niece Maria Keeling Valverde. His will was proved in 1881.

I have 12 names who are supposed to be children of Isaac Valverde Seon, these are to be confirmed ... I have dates for 7. Hoping to find Isaac's will.

Lynda, I did some work in the IGI this morning and got dates (and citations) for 8 of the children. The others may belong to someone else, and will take a bit more time but i am leaving them where I can find them!!

Robert Cooper Ashby (1776?-1839) produced 10 children with Mary Ann who adopted his surname. The first child she baptized (no father mentioned) she is described as Mary Ann, Mulatto Slave of Robert Cooper Ashby.

I reckon he was their father because of oral family tradition ... my aunt could name each one and who they married passed on to her by her grandmother ... and RCA's will names Mary Ann Ashby, a woman of colour and her 10 children in his will as inheriting Burke's Plantation (310 acres, Mill wall still standing where Talma's live at Atlantic Shores) and Britton's Plantation.

He also left other bequests to another woman of colour, Elizabeth Brewster and her son.

He manumitted some slaves suggesting he may have had relations with other women of colour.

Suckey Ann was one I discovered through Andrea Ramsey who wrote an article in the Journal of the BMHS.

Another was the ancestor of Andrea Stuart who recently wrote a book called "Sugar in the Blood".

I am descended from William Armstrong Ashby who married Rebecca Keiling Valverde through their son Andrew Alexander Ashby.

Besides William Armstrong, one of his siblings (I reckon Caroline Keysar Ashby) married a Valverde, Joseph Keiling Valverde on 14th June 1842 in Crist Church.

I have not confirmed but I have in my records a brother, John George Ashby marrying a Seon but don't know the Christian name.

My records also have a sister, Alice Christian Ashby marrying a Seon but I don't think this is right as I have found an Alice Christian Ashby burial.

William Armstrong was the first lighthouse keeper at South Point which is built on lands acquired by the crown from the 10 owners of Burkes c. 1851.

Bentham's and Ashby's were cousins from early as were Seon's and Valverde's.

I may have errors in the above ... please correct and add but at the moment this is my state of knowledge for those generations.

My aunt told me that there is Dewhurst from Trinidad in the mix as well and that family produced a Test cricketer who played in if not the first official WI test then a pretty early one.

Earliest Ashby I can find in Barbados was George. His will was 1671.

He was a Quaker as was his son William who was put in stocks for 3 hours for working on Christmas Day (a Holy Day) building a wall in a Quaker Burial Ground close to St. Philip's Church and then imprisoned and fined ..... check Besse on "The sufferings of the Quakers".

Most early Bajans were Quakers after 1648 either leaving England to escape persecution or being "Barbadosed".

I have a Louisa Keiling Grell who died in 1934 and is buried at Westbury Cemetery, age 90, probably her mother and the Louisa Keiling [Grell] Seon referred to above. That makes her birth in 1844. Her place of birth is given as Barbados.

I am going to guess at this stage that Louisa Keiling Seon married Anthony Andrew Grell and produced

Amy Keeling [Lynch] Grell was my great aunt, married to Judge Percy Algernon Lynch, b.30 May 1880, Barbados, West Indies, d.13 Oct 1955 (or in 1960), Barbados, West Indies, and who was the mother of Joan Paula Louise [Jones] Lynch, b.02 May 1916, d.1980 - and Joan was the mother of Caribbean champion jockeys Chally and Jono Jones.